Ultimate 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Guide

If you couldn’t make the 2007 Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa) (BRKb) annual meeting to experience Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger first hand, then I hope that the following guide can offer the next best thing to being there in person.

I couldn’t attend this year’s meeting, so I’m going to be collecting as many stories and reports as I can find on the internet regarding this year’s shareholders’ meeting. If you find something not on this list or would like to share your own first hand account of the meeting, please send them to me so I can share it with others like I did for the 2006 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting. I will be updating this post continuously all weekend and probably for the next couple of weeks as detailed meeting notes become available.

Official Releases

• Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Earnings 2007
• Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Press Release
• Wesco Financial Corp. First Quarter Earnings 2007 Press Release

Blog Posts

• Berkshire Days are coming – Businessworks Inc.
• Live From Omaha: The Berkshire Hathaway Meeting – The Motley Fool
• Analyst Blog – Live from Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting – Morningstar
• Berkshire Hathaway 2007: Charlie Munger on Ethanol – ValueSeeker.Net
• Blogging Buffettland – The Bwog
• Newcomers to Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting: Protesters? – BloggingStocks
• Meeting Highlights. You need to buy this stock – Yahoo! BRK-A Board
• Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting: From the Floor – ThePanelist
• Warren Buffett on Shorting Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) – ThePanelist
• Hiring the Next Generation at Berkshire Hathaway – ThePanelist
• Berkshire Hathaway on Global Warming – The Panelist
• Warren Buffett Answers Question on Silver Trade – ThePanelist
• Berkshire Hathaway Charlie Munger on Ethanol – ThePanelist
• Warren Buffet on the Decline in The U.S. Dollar – ThePanelist
• Berkshire Board Allows PetroChina Divestment Activists to Speak – ThePanelist
• Live from The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting – ThePanelist
• Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Report – Fool.com Post of the Day
• Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2007 – Toro’s Running of the Bulls Market Blog
• Off to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha – Once More Unto the Breach
• Day One: Palm Pressing – Once More Unto the Breach
• Day Two: Bloodshot eyes and adrenaline – Once More Unto the Breach
• Day Three: I can sleep when I die – Once More Unto the Breach
• Pilgrimage to Omaha, Part I: This is Big – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage Part II: The Newspaper Generation – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part III: When the Math Doesn’t Work – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage Part IV: What if Bob Nardelli Had Done This Once in a While? – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage Part V: Budding Buffetts and The Best of All Worlds – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part VI: The Most Versatile Investor in the World – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part VII: “You Don’t Want to Let Him Down” – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part VIII: Who Do You Trust? – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part IX: Avoiding Catastrophe; Some Bad Advice; and One Unanswerable Question – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• Pilgrimage, Part X: On The Cheap – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
• The 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Top 20 Questions - J. V. Bruni and Company

Media Coverage

• Off To Omaha – Forbes
• Buffett’s bash begins Saturday in Omaha
• Wallman, Money Manager, Says Warren Buffett Is Not Retiring - Bloomberg video
• Buffett gala draws critics as well as admirers – Reuters
• Berkshire Notes – Omaha World-Herald
• Berkshire Live: Updates from Q&A session – Omaha World-Herald
• Buffett – FT.com
• Subprime crisis not big threat: Buffett – MarketWatch
• Subprime defaults made worse by securitization: Buffett – MartketWatch
• Buffett defends dual-class share structure in newspaper biz – MarketWatch
• Berkshire’s insurance earnings to decline, Buffett says – MarketWatch
• Global warming may increase hurricane losses, Buffett says – MarketWatch
• Berkshire shareholders vote against Darfur resolution – MarketWatch
• Buffett sees no ‘orchestrated’ credit contraction – MarketWatch
• Buffett plans more overseas exposure for Berkshire – MarketWatch
• Buffett says may hire 4 chief investment officers – Reuters
• Buffett in Spotlight At Berkshire Meeting – Washington Post
• Buffett Says Berkshire Is Ready to Buy ‘Big Business’ – Bloomberg
• Berkshire shareholders reject PetroChina resolution – International Herald Tribune
• Berkshire Hathaway faithful set another record – Omaha World-Herald
• Berkshire to keep PetroChina stake – Omaha World-Herald
• Buffett calls Dow Jones “ultimate trophy property” – FT Trading Desk
• Owning the railroads was Buffett’s childhood dream – FT Trading Desk
• Buffett almost done succession plan – FT Trading Desk
• Warren Buffett’s tax advisor? President George W. Bush – FT Trading Desk
• Buffett on the subprime mortgage meltdown – FT Trading Desk
• Buffettpalooza rocks Omaha – FT Trading Desk
• Live from Omaha: The Sudan Issue – Portfolio.com
• Wastin’ Away in Berkshire Hathaway-ville – Portfolio.com
• Buffett defends dual-class share structure in newspaper biz – MarketWatch
• Omaha-Cum-Lourdes – Forbes
• Oscar’s unlikely, but Berkshire’s movies are a perennial hit – Omaha World-Herald
• Hoop Dreams II: Buffett over LeBron – Omaha World-Herald
• The Berkshire Hathaway Theme Park – Portfolio.com
• A Tour of Berkshire, Omaha – Portfolio.com
• Gateway to the Best – Portfolio.com
• Berkshire Weekend Draws Attention – WOWT News
• Warren Buffett Performed at Justin Brands Booth – Business Wire
• 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting – About.com: Investing for Beginners
• Whitney Tilson’s full notes from the 2007 Berkshire shareholder meeting (pdf) – Value Investor Insight

Photos

• Neubie’s Berkshire Hathaway 2007 photos
• Berkshire-sponsored reception on Friday – Yahoo! News AP
• Crowds outside of Borsheims on Friday – Yahoo! News AP
• Shareholders at the reception – Yahoo! News AP
• Sitting around the tables at the reception – Yahoo! News AP
• Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur in Omaha - Yahoo! News AP
• Shareholders asking Berkshire Hathaway to sell holdings in PetroChina – Yahoo! News AP
• Indian tribes protesting dams along the Klamath river – Yahoo! News AP
• Omaha World-Herald Berkshire Hathaway Meeting Photos
• Warren Buffett is flanked by his son, Peter, and daughter, Susie – Yahoo! News AP
• Buffett plays with a western band at the Justin Brands stage – Yahoo! News AP
• Buffett playing his eukalalee – Yahoo! News AP
• Buffett singing – Yahoo! News AP
• Warren Buffett strikes a pose on a mattress – Yahoo! News AP
• Warren Buffett thanks performers at the Fruit of the Loom booth – Yahoo! News AP
• Warren Buffett speaks to reporters – Yahoo! News AP
• Buffett and his children wait for movie – Yahoo! News AP
• John Gartmann’s photos
• Curtis Joe Walker Omaha 2007
• Jason Smith’s 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting photos
• Wawrus 2007 Berkshire Meeting
• BuffettJr’s Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2007 photos

Acknowledgements: Many of these links were originally discovered by BRKNEWS. 

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